An analysis about a generic desktop application configuration management system

[P. Kaluza]

Patrick Patterson wrote:

>On Monday 11 April 2005 20:42, P. Kaluza wrote:
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>>So i _suggest_ (as others have before me) to adopt DBUS as the protocol
>>for all client<->first-tier-server. 
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>Why bother at this point? Let's do like every other standards body before us, 
>and define what the protocol looks like, and ignore the transport of that 
>protocol - it may be that D-BUS is the right way to go, but there could be an 
>argument made for DCOP, and straight up Unix Domain Sockets.
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Well, the idea basically was to know if protocoll ideas should be 
proposed and discussed in the form of function calls or of ASCII command 
strings (think IMAP). Although, now that i think about it, it would be 
possible to converse between the two. A bit non-trivial when it comes to 
async calls, though. :-)

I'd say let's assume we'll use some kind of RPC and discuss the ideas in 
function form for a start.

Bye,
  Philipp